China to Send Senior Official to North Korea

China plans to send a senior official to North Korea this week for commemorations of the founding of North Korea’s ruling party, North Korea’s state media said on Sunday. Liu Yunshan, a leading member of the Chinese Communist Party’s Politburo Standing Committee, who is ranked fifth in the party hierarchy, will travel to Pyongyang on Friday. Liu is expected to attend the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Workers’ Party on Saturday, October 10, according to the Korean Central News...

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